Nick Lyell
Co-Founder & COO at CivStart Ventures
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolNick Lyell is a mission-driven founder and operator with 12 years of experience building nationally recognized govtech and civic innovation organizations. As Co-Founder and COO/Chief Impact Officer of CivStart (and now CivStart Ventures), he blends nonprofit operations—finance, HR, communications—and accelerator design to help governments and startups pilot real-world public-sector technology. He has deep experience partnering with state and local leaders, industry associations, and investors to translate policy needs into market opportunities and pilot-ready products. Equally at home in storytelling, Nick is an award-winning filmmaker and multimedia collaborator whose creative practice informs his approach to narrative-driven advocacy and stakeholder engagement. Based in Lexington, KY, he fosters transparent, autonomous remote teams and has a track record of turning programmatic insight into scalable products and events that convene entrepreneurs, public officials, and funders. An unexpected strength is his hands-on blend of creative production and rigorous operations, which helps CivStart make complex government problems both visible and solvable.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Policial Science with Honors, Economics, Latin American Studies, B.S., Policial Science with Honors, Economics, Latin American Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPolitical Science and Economics, Agricultural Economics, Political Science and Economics, Agricultural Economics at La Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Perú
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
arxiv9
caffe8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
pytorch6
census4
serve4
internet3
geospatial2
json2
topojson2
shapefile2
geography2
gis2
javascript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nikAleksandr/CIC
May 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:503 commits, 200 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
connectioncountyintelligence
solarpunksc/solarpunksc.github.io
Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:33 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
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